< PreviousPROJECTS WWW.CONSTRUCTIONWEEKONLINE.COM ON SITE CW provides a collection of its most recent site and plant visits to keep you up-to-date with project progress PROJECT UPDATE FOLLOW CONSTRUCTION WEEK @CWMIDDLEEAST 30 CONSTRUCTION WEEK DECEMBER 2020 WANT TO UPDATE YOUR PROJECT'S PROGRESS, OR HAVE IT INCLUDED HERE? Email the editor: ashley.williams@itp.com FOLLOW CONSTRUCTION WEEK @CWMIDDLEEAST Dubai-based developer Samana Developers is currently in the nishing stages of its rst residential project with the handout letter being planned to be delivered in weeks. The development has a total of 122 units, with 116 comprising residential units. Samana Greens is located in the heart of Arjan within Dubailand. Samana Greens is an residential complex development comprising of studios, one and two bedroom apartments. SAMANA GREENS Location Dubai Visited May 2020 Following the easing of lockdown restrictions as a result of the impact of COVID-19, Construction Week conducted its rst site visit in almost six months to Kleindienst Group's The Heart of Europe - the $5bn master-planned leisure tourism island destination - off the coast of Dubai. Construction Week gathered updates of the man-made island's Côte d’Azur Resort, which comprises four boutique hotels – Monaco, Nice, Cannes and St. Tropez – and offering distinct European hospitality and culture in Dubai, and the Rainy Street covering 1km, where it will rain on command. THE HEART OF EUROPE Location Dubai Visited August 2020 Property development giant Ithra Dubai, which is wholly- owned by the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), marked a major milestone on it’s One Za’abeel project in October 2020 with the nal lift of the 900-tonne second section of ‘The Link’. The Link quali es One Za’abeel to attempt to break the Guinness World Record title for the “Longest Cantilevered Building” in the world. Among the stakeholders of the One Za’abeel twin tower development include ALEC as the main contractor and WSP Middle East as the multi- disciplinary engineering consultant. ONE ZA'ABEEL Location Dubai Visited October 2020PROJECTS WWW.CONSTRUCTIONWEEKONLINE.COMDECEMBER 2020 CONSTRUCTION WEEK 31 Located off the shores of Muharraq, the kingdom’s historic former capital, Diyar Al Muharraq is a 12.2km2 waterfront development comprising a mix of residences, hotels, beaches and a shopping mall. Work on the project started in 2007 which will be divided into four to ve phases. Several contractors have been appointed for certain projects across the project, including Almoayyed Contracting Group, who are working on the Souq Al Baraha market. DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ Location Muharraq, Bahrain Visited February 2020 Located at Dubai's Science Park, Deyaar's rst design-and- build project is progressing ahead of schedule and will be delivered by December 2020. During an exclusive site visit to the project’s site, Ababneh told Construction Week that Deyaar had appointed design and engineering rm Kling Consult to supervise Bella Rose's design in April 2018. The project comprises 478 units, and its main contract was awarded to Condor Building Contracting in September 2018. DEYAAR'S BELLA ROSE Location Dubai, UAE Visited March 2020 One of the largest brown eld projects in the region, Alba's Line 6 expansion project was completed at the end of 2019 and is among the fastest expansion projects to be ever commissioned in the aluminium industry after just 23 months. Line 6 is one of the longest reduction lines in the world comprising 424 reduction cells built over an area of 1,400m2 – will add 540,000 metric tonnes per annum to the company’s total production capacity. ALBA Location Bahrain Visited March 2020 Dubai-based contractor ASGC Construction LLC, as the main contractor, is tasked with the Dubai Mall Boulevard Expansion project, which includes the conversion of multiple levels of the existing car parking to a double-height retail mall. Both, overall construction and MEP works at the project are 65% complete, with ASGC now moving ahead with t-out and nishing works, which includes the nal phase and external façade. ASGC is aiming to complete the project by September 2020. DUBAI MALL EXPANSION Location Dubai Visited April 2020PROJECTS 32 CONSTRUCTION WEEK DECEMBER 2020WWW.CONSTRUCTIONWEEKONLINE.COM FOLLOW CONSTRUCTION WEEK @CWMIDDLEEASTVISIT WWW.CONSTRUCTIONWEEKONLINE.COM FOR PICTURES Dubai-based private real estate developer Azizi Developments, headed by chairman Mirwais Azizi, is currently developing the $3.2bn (AED12bn) Azizi Rivera a mixed-use, four-phase megaproject, located within the city's Meydan One neighbourhood on the banks of Dubai Canal. Azizi Riviera comprises a cluster of 71 buildings, with 16,000 units ranging from studios to one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments.In May 2019, construction work on Azizi Riviera was 41% complete, with the developer having recorded 3.4 million safe man-hours on the site. AZIZI RIVIERA Location Dubai, UAE Visited August 2019 Located within the master-planned mixed-use community Mohammed Bin Rashid City, along the 3.2km Dubai Water Canal, is Dubai-based real estate developer, Sobha Group’s $4bn (AED14.7bn) Sobha Hartland development - the group’s agship project in the Middle East. In October 2019, overall infrastructure work across Sobha Hartland was 90%. 30% of the 74.3ha master plan is enveloped in green spaces. Sobha Group employs 4,000 workers across its Hartland development, who recorded 27 million lost-time injury-free hours at the master community at the time of the site visit. SOBHA HARTLAND Location Dubai, UAE Visited November 2019 Located within the Jumeriah Golf Estates, Beaver Gulf's rst real estate development project - Zafran - is a $75m 40,413m2 residential development comprising 178.4m2 two-bedroom houses, as well as three-bedroom houses covering an area of 207.4m2 and 217.6m2. The project has crossed the 30% on site completion and is expected to be handed over on 20 October, 2020, coinciding with the start of the Expo 2020 Dubai. ZAFRAN Location Dubai, UAE Visited December 2019 Located in Downtown Dubai, the 75-storey tower will comprise 946 units, including studios, one-bedroom apartments, and two-bedroom lofts and duplexes. Construction of the tower has been ongoing for 30 months, with the building being topped out in April 2019. Work on SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences is being carried out by Mapa & Gunal Construction, Aedas is involved as the architect, and the interiors are being led by Bishop Design SLS Location Dubai, UAE Visited January 2020EVENTS CALENDAR 34 CONSTRUCTION WEEK DECEMBER 2020WWW.CONSTRUCTIONWEEKONLINE.COM Construction Week Awards Date: 9 December 2020 Venue: JW Marriott Marquis Dispute Resolution Dubai Date: 19 February 2021 Venue: TBC KSA Infrastructure Summit Date: 2 & 3 March 2021 Venue: Virtual CONFERENCES & EVENTS For up-to-the-minute conference and events information, log on to constructionweekonline.com/conferences As we gear up for one of our busiest months of the year, we have some very exciting news for you with regards to our events. This month, we will see the return of our rst physical event of 2020 – The Construction Week Awards – on the 9th December at the JW Marriott Marquis in Dubai. We have now decided our Highly Commended and Winners for each of our 17 categories where we received 156 submissions from 56 rms across the region. We received nominations from amazing individuals, companies and projects shaping our built environment. We can also reveal that we can now accommodate eight people per table for the CW Awards 2020. As we enter into 2021, we will have several of our popular events returning for yet another year, such as Dispute Resolution Question Time on the 19th February 2021 to deliberate the challenges and opportunities of EVENTS NEWS technology in dispute resolution. We will also see the return of our KSA Infrastructure Summit on the 2 and 3 March 2021, which will comprise four panel discussions to discuss the current state of Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure sector as well the growth of the Kingdom’s transport system. 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